Newby on the block... well, to casting anyways.

[avator]

Does the PC foul barrel?

[cosmic]

 The pc does not come off even when shot into a target.. Tough stuff.. It does not leave lead or pc in the barrel..

[avator]

The pc does not come off even when shot into a target.. Tough stuff.. It does not leave lead or pc in the barrel..

Thank you.

[2A Georgia]

Okay more story line in search of the perfect .3035 cast slug.
Last night I put some steel wool on a .25" dowel and hand polished my Lee .303 sizer to .3034-.3036
I have about 2 mags of "grey light powder" test subjects (some dummy coated with the negative lead but no electricity on).
Tonight I put the new Wallyworld 8" cheapy fan just above the level of the top of the pot and cast up a batch of Accurate Molds 3062A (first picture).
I love this mold!
Remembered to turn on the Electro-Static and dusted them (with a sheet of lubricated aluminum foil over my cookie tray) - second photo.
Twenty minutes later I pulled beautiful jet black slugs out of the yard sale toaster over.  They're still too hot to measure as coated, but they will get sized tomorrow (third photo).  If I can get everything loaded up I can LGR test them for groups Thursday.

You can't see in the photo, but apparently with the spacing I had and gun angle I PCed the meplat down to upper driving band, but almost nothing on the lower band.  The micrometer says they are .3047 and sized to .3034 to .3036.
The grouping was better at 3 touching slug width left to right, but all over the place for vertical (varied fps unregulated).  I even shot a magazine of "sized down the barrel" .3047s which were the best group but still not MOS with the vertical variance.   I got so frustrated I shot a group of NSA 46 and 61.5 which was opened up from my tuning testing so I (frustrated) put the Challenger away when my BY range fake rock lit up my last target.  I'm going to more thoroughly coat another batch before I conceed to factory (NSA) ammo for this Challenger

[2A Georgia]

Found a batch of 90 or so AM 3062A poorly hand PCed.  Hit them with the Harbor Freight Electrostatic liberal coat.  They are a nice black complete coat (with shinny silver bases).  They came out of the Goodwill EZBake in 20 minutes at .3050 and my "polished" Lee Sizer is .3037-.304 so I have 9 to test in the BY range before I size them all.

[avator]

Been a minute since I posted to this one...

So, Betty Lou's toaster oven crapped out and we got her a new one. Not being the type just to throw stuff away until it's proven useless, I took it to the shop to explore the possibilities of it becoming a bigger and better mold preheating oven.
Well, I discovered that there ain't much hope in that... it won't heat up past 180f. I could probably wire the elements direct to the PID controller but since I already have one I don't think it's worth the effort... for now. 

[avator]

Ok so, that option ruled out, I came up with another idea for a rainy day project.
The other mold oven has a couple issues.
The mold handles must stick out of the top of the door. This gap in the door left enough heat to escape to melt and deform the bezzle on the PID. It also created some issues with the PID to lose it's cookies from time to time and shut down.
Also, that PID don't have the option to set from C to F readout.
I have a spare that is not deformed and can be changed to read out in F.
I also have a hunk of 2400F insulation blanket left over from the wood stove install.
See where I'm going here?
I'll swap out the PID controller and replace the door with the heat blanket.

Who has more fun than me?